Newark man convicted of gun trafficking

ATLANTA -- A federal jury has convicted a New Jersey man of heading a scheme to buy guns in Georgia and sell them in New Jersey, where 13 weapons turned up at crime scenes and one has been linked to a homicide.

Thirty-four-year-old Clovis Reeves of Newark was found guilty today of conspiracy to illegally purchase firearms, aiding and abetting the falsification of firearms records, and being a felon in possession of firearms.

Reeves was indicted Aug. 29 with seven others, who have pleaded guilty to multiple counts and testified at his four-day trial. Six are Georgia residents who admitted acting as "straw purchasers" for eight months in 2005 to buy 57 guns carried to Reeves and later sold on the streets in New Jersey.